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Traditionally, one of the two main parts of a sentence or clause, the other being the subject. In the sentence ‘The chicken crossed the road’, ‘the chicken’ is the subject and ‘crossed the road’ is the predicate. In the sentence ‘Parents make their children happy’, ‘parents’ is the subject and ‘make their children happy’ is the predicate.



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